This is an analysis of the poem Written For My Son ... At His First Putting On Breeches that begins with:
WHAT is it our mamma's bewitches,
To plague us little boys with breeches ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddaaddXee effddeeggddeehheeiieedd eebb iibbiXeeeeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,23,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110100 011101010 01010111 11010101 111101010 010101010 111111110 100100010 11011111 11011111 10010101 01110111 10011111 11010001 110110110 01010111 01011111 01011111 11110111 11010111 11011111 11111101 10011101 01010111 01010001 11010011 11110111 01010111 110001010 001111010 01010001 110110101 110101010 110101110 100000101 11011101 011100101 01010111 11010101 11011101 10110111 11110011 11010101 101000101 11110001 11000101 11011101 11011111 01010101 11110100 10010011 01011111 101010101 11000101 11000101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
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